The Balkans - Brossura

Mazower, Mark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753811456 ISBN 13: 9780753811450

Casa editrice: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2001

Riassunto

At the end of the 20th century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years earlier, the Balkans did not exist. It was not the Balkans but the ¿Rumeli¿ that the Ottomans ruled, the formerly Roman lands that they had conquered from Byzantium, together with its Christian inhabitants. To westerners, too, familiar with classical regional terms such as Macedonia, Epiros and Dacia, the term ¿Balkan¿ conveyed little. In this dazzlingly original account of the region Mark Mazower dispels current Western clichés and replaces stereotypes with a vivid account of how mountains, empires and religions have shaped its inhabitants¿ lives. As a bridge between Europe and Asia it has been exposed to a constant incursion of nomadic peoples across the centuries. Empires based on religion not ethnicity shaped customs and beliefs in ways that did not entirely vanish with the coming of modernity. This book provides not only a vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics but also offers the reader a fresh view of the region¿s relationship with Europe as a whole.

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Descrizione del libro:

A short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics

L'autore:

Mark Mazower is a Professor of History at Princeton University and has recently been appointed Professor of History at Birkbeck College, London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0753811456
• ISBN 13: 9780753811450
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224